Parkland student activists Sofie Whitney and Ryan Deitsch visit Yale campus to speak about community organizing around the broader issue of a "culture of violence". Interview with Richard Hill, WPKN Radio producer (6:12) April 24, 2018

Three-part excerpts from Avi Chomsky's presentations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Day of Action on April 17. Includes a historical perspective as well as a question and answer session with immigrants. Recorded and produced by Chuck Rosina, long-time public affairs and news producer at WMBR FM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 17, 2018

Chuck Rosina's report on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Day of Action on April 17, where members of the MIT and broader local community were given an opportunity to devote the day to engaging with the political, economic, environmental and social challenges facing us today, through learning, discussion, reflection and planning for action. Includes comments from Avi Chomsky, daughter of the renowned professor Noam Chomsky (12:58) April 17, 2018

Tyler Suarez, lead organizer of the March for Our Lives demo in Hartford, CT on March 24, assesses the event attended by 10,000 and discusses the agenda for the youth movement going forward. Interviewed by Richard Hill.

Michael Zweig, economist and labor historian, unpacks the Supreme Court case Janus vs. AFSCME and
places it in the context of the history of American labor struggles since the 19th century. He also analyzes the extraordinary West Virginia teachers' strike and what it might portend for labor militancy going forward.

Zweig is professor emeritus at Stonybrook University, former director of the Center for the Study of Working
Class Life, and author of What's Class Got to Do With It? American Society in the Twenty-first Century)
Interviewed by Richard Hill. March 6, 2018.

Are private water companies free to bottle and export Connecticut's water?
Judy Allen, from Save Our Water Connecticut (SaveOurWaterct.org) explains the vulnerability of Connecticut's water to private interests and suggests remedies. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

Doria Robinson, executive director of Urban Tilth, a food justice project based in Richmond, California, describes her work creating a democratic food production and distribution network in that working class community. Doria argues that there can be no end to hunger and deprivation without a
radical economic transformation. Check out her work at urbantilth.org and foodfirst.org Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.

Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.

Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017

Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017

Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny,
discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017

Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers

SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017

Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.

SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven

John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.

JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.

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Posted Feb. 24, 2016 for week ending March 4, 2016

"The thing that troubles a lot of us on one hand is a company being sort of forced by the government to create a tool of surveillance, a version of the operating system that doesn't have the protections that the normal version does, specifically for eavesdropping."

– Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Center for Democracy and Technology's chief technology officer, on why his group supports Apple's decision to resist a court order to create a new operating system for FBI surveillance that could be placed on hundreds of millions of iPhones

Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual
interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description
below.

Interview with Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist with the Center for Democracy and Technology, conducted by Scott Harris

A federal judge issued an order on Feb. 16, requiring the Apple computer company to produce software for the FBI that can unlock the iPhone used by one of the deceased attackers who killed 14 people and wounded 22 at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California on Dec. 2, 2015. The order does not ask Apple to break the phone's encryption, but rather to disable the iPhone's feature that deletes all data on the phone after a user enters an incorrect password 10 times.
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Excerpt of speech by Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus

On Feb. 19 and 20, Yale Law School hosted the 22nd annual Rebellious Lawyering conference, known as RebLaw. The conference, grounded in the spirit of Gerald Lopez’s Rebellious Lawyering, seeks to build a community of law students, practitioners, and activists seeking to work in the service of social change movements and to challenge hierarchies of race, wealth, gender and expertise within legal practice and education.
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Interview with Kai Newkirk, campaign director with the group Democracy Spring, conducted by Scott Harris

For the first time in recent U.S. history, candidates competing to win their party’s nomination to run in the 2016 presidential election have been forced to address what many Americans believe to be their nation’s broken political system and economy rigged in favor of the wealthiest individuals and powerful corporations. While Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has devoted his campaign to articulating these grievances more than any other candidate, others vying for the White House, including Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have to a lesser degree also emphasized the failings of America’s current political and economic status quo.
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After a three-year federal study of 7,500 people who had worked at the Union Carbide vinyl chloride plant in Texas City, Texas over 30 years, health researchers identified 23 brain tumor cases in plant workers.
("Making a cancer cluster disappear," Center for Public Integrity, Feb. 10, 2016)

In the last few years, mostly immigrant workers have successfully conducted union organizing drives at 10 New York City car washes, doubling their take-home pay with a contract negotiated by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union.
("Work at the Car Wash," In These Times, Jan. 19, 2016)